List of names included in timeline (chronological order):
Mikhail Matyushin (1862-1934) Futurism
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Symbolism
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Late Romanticism
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Late Romanticism
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Symbolism, early post-modernism
Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) Late Romantic
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Symbolism, Mysticism
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Late Romantic
Charles Ives (1874-1954) Polystylism, American Avant-garde, early post-modernism
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1952) Expressionism, 2nd Viennese School, Serialism
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Neoclassicism
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Neoclassicism
Béla Bartók (1881-1945) Neoclassicism
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Neoclassicism, Serialism
Luigi Russolo (1883-1947) Futurism
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) Polystylism, Electronic music, Musique Concrète
Anton Webern (1883-1945) 2nd Viennese School, Serialism
Alban Berg (1885-1935) Expressionism, 2nd Viennese School, Serialism, Neorom
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Neoclassicism, Late Romanticism
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Neoclassicism, Les Six
Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) Neoclassicism, (post) Symbolism, Mysticism
Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) Futurism, American Avant-garde
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Neoclassicism
Henry Cowell (1897-1965) American Avant-garde
George Gershwin (1898-1937) Jazz-influenced Neoclassicism
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Neoclassicism, Les Six
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Neoclassicism, Serialism
Harry Partch (1901-1974) Microtonal, American Avant-garde
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) Microtonal
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Mysticism, Symbolism
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995) Musique Concrète
John Cage (1912-1992) Aleatoric Music, Extended Technique
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Neoclassicism
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) Serialism, Electronic Music
Lou Harrison (1917-2003) Extended Technique
B. A. Zimmermann (1918-1970) Serialism, Musique Concrète, Electronic Music
Iannis Xenakis (1922-1981) Stochastic, electronic music
György Ligeti (1923-2006) Micropoliphony
Luigi Nono (1924-1990) Extended technique, Electronic Music, Spatialism
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Electronic Music
Pierre Boulez (1925- ) Serialism, Aleatoric Music, Electronic Music
Earle Brown (1926-2002) Open Form, Graphic Notation, Aleatoric Music
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Open Form, Indeterminacy
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Electronic Music, Serialism, Aleatoric Music
Robert Ashley (1930- ) Electronic Music, Extended Techniques
Pauline Oliveros (1932- ) Electronic Music
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933- ) extended technique
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) (New Simplicity)
Arvo Pärt (1935- ) Neoclassicism, post-minimalism, New Simplicity
Terry Riley (1935- ) Minimalism
La Monte Young (1935- ) Minimalism, Microtonality
Steve Reich (1936- ) Minimalism
Philip Glass (1937- ) Minimalism
Frederic Rzewski (1938- )
John Cale (1942- ) Minimalism
Horaţiu Rădulescu (1942-2008) Spectralism
Brian Ferneyhough (1943- ) New Complexity
Anthony Braxton (1945- ) Open Form, Aleatoric, Jazz-influenced extended technique
Tristan Murail (1947- ) Spectralism
Barry Truax (1947- ) Electronic Music, Stochastics
Curtis Roads (1951- ) Electronic Music, Stochastics
Wolfgang Rihm (1952- ) New Simplicity, Expressionism
James Wood (1953- ) Microtonality, Percussive
Diego Minciacchi (1955- ) Extended Technique
Wolfgang Mitterer (1958- ) Live Electronics
Ana-Maria Avram (1961- ) Spectralism
Unsuk Chin (1961- ) Microtonal, Electronic Music, texturalism
Rebecca Saunders (1967- )
Thomas Adès (1971- )
Michael Hersch (1971- )
Svitlana Azarova (1976- )
Justė Janulytė (1982- ) Post-minimalism, texturalism
